[jenedens6102]

After discussing with my husband the events of the last week we've come to a decision. We are going to end fertility treatments and move on to starting the adoption process.

We prayed on a daily basis that God's hands be with us as we went through our IVF cycle. We felt confident that things would happen according to His will for our lives. Our IVF cycle didn't make it to completion after our embryos arrested and started to degenerate prior to the day of transfer. We feel like continuing to pursue testing and treatment after praying for answers would just be selfish on our part. I know not everyone will agree but this is how we feel. We do both feel very strongly (DH just recently) that adoption is the answer for us. It's a gift that we can give to a child and a life that we can have as a family just the same.

We have some work to do on our home and a lot of research to do to determine whether we want an open or closed adoption, public or private sector, etc. So this isn't something that will take place tomorrow or maybe even within the year but we are going to begin the process as soon as we can.

I want to thank everyone for their support, their kind words of encouragement and all their thoughts and prayers. You ladies have meant the world to me during this process, I just wish I'd found you two years before when we began the process. I wish you all the best of luck and much success!